Featured photo: Sopan Tike, affable co-owner of Lilah’s Bakery in Shreveport, poses with a mint cream and chocolate chip-filled king cake. There are lots of great places to get king cakes in Shreveport and Bossier…

Featured photo: Boudin king cake from Blue Southern Comfort Food in Shreveport. There's a joke about Louisiana that goes: "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes." While I know she'd bristle at...

Featured photo: The Ono's Traditional Hawaiian Cuisine food truck serves a crowd at Sainte Terre in Benton on Sept. 23, 2016. 2016 was a fascinating year in the Shreveport-Bossier food and drink scene. New restaurants...

Featured photo: Smoked Mahaffey Farms ribs are on the menu at The Levee, which recently opened for breakfast and lunch at 520 East Kings Highway in Shreveport. Maybe it’s a sign of the ever-evolving nature…

Featured photo: A Detroit-style Coney from Top Dawg Hot Dawg. These hot dogs are decidedly more delicious than they are photogenic. Anthony Fodale’s Top Dawg Hot Dawg is a new hot dog cart serving Detroit-style Coneys…

Featured photo: Chef Ernest Palmisano Jr. stands in the lounge of his restaurant in Shreveport on a Tuesday afternoon. The final one-night-only dinner experience of the inaugural 318 Restaurant Week will be held on Saturday, Nov….

Featured photo: Chef Eddie Hughes, the late owner of Eddie’s Seafood & Soul Food Restaurant, poses with a giant platter of stuffed shrimp. Photo provided by the Hughes family. As I have shared before on…

Featured Photo: Herby-K’s co-owner David Doe demonstrates how to eat a shrimp buster for a pair of hungry travelers. Photo by Jim Noetzel. Deadline extended! The new deadline to enter this giveaway is midnight on…

Featured photo: Marilynn’s Place is a Cajun and Creole restaurant located at 4041 Fern Avenue in Shreveport. Photo by Jim Noetzel. Like anything that happens at Marilynn’s Place – a festive Cajun and Creole eatery…

Featured photo: Gabriel Balderas of El Cabo Verde grills oysters as the sun sets on Caddo Lake during the first Pineywoods Supper Club event. When farmer Evan McCommon, of Princeton, Louisiana’s Mahaffey Farms, attended a Delta Supper…

Featured photo: A bowl of Chef Hardette Harris’s greens. Photo by Jim Noetzel. Chef Hardette Harris, a private chef and caterer who is also a well-known expert on the regional cuisine of North Louisiana, has…

Featured photo: The fried avocado and shrimp tequila appetizer ($13) at Tejas, a Southwestern-influenced restaurant in Shreveport. What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “Southwestern cuisine”? For me, the term only conjures up…

Photo: An order of tacos from Parish Taceaux, including fried catfish, Nashville hot chicken and Korean BBQ tacos. Maybe the most helpful piece of advice that anyone could give you before your first visit to…

Featured Photo: Sione Maumalanga (far right) and members of the Ono’s Traditional Hawaiian Cuisine team are preparing for the June 4 launch of their food truck at the Shreveport Farmers’ Market. It boggles the mind…